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High Financier
Niall Ferguson
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Description for High Financier
paperback. Features the story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's pre-eminent international financial centre. It shows how this scholarly man brought wit, passion and high ethical standards to the world of finance, and more. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; BGB; KFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 408.
This is the extraordinary story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's preeminent international financial centre. In recounting how this brilliant, scholarly man brought wit, passion and, above all, high ethical standards to the world of finance, Niall Ferguson shows how his meticulous methods were the antithesis of the debt-fuelled, speculative banking of our times.
'A fascinating portrait ... Beautifully paced, dramatically subtle and psychologically shrewd ... Warburg is an emblem of money as it ought to be, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141022017
SKU
9780141022017
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of ... Read more
Reviews for High Financier
Beautifully paced, dramatically subtle and psychologically shrewd, this is Ferguson at his finest
Peter Stormonth Darling
Spectator
Ferguson is a talented writer, capable of grace and insight, but it is his ability as a historian that shows most strongly in High Financier
T. J. Stiles
The Washington Post Sunday
Its many finance lessons aside, ... Read more
Peter Stormonth Darling
Spectator
Ferguson is a talented writer, capable of grace and insight, but it is his ability as a historian that shows most strongly in High Financier
T. J. Stiles
The Washington Post Sunday
Its many finance lessons aside, ... Read more